Broward County-wide Community Design Guidebook Wins Award and Gains International Momentum
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10/31/2006 9:14:20 AM
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Local Broward Architect Anthony Abbate, Authors the Guidebook and Talks on Australian Radio Show about Its Ideas
BROWARD COUNTY, FL – Broward County Board of County Commissioners received an award for design excellence, from The American Institute of Architecture (AIA) in October 2006 for the Broward County-wide Community Design Guidebook. Presented to the County’s Urban Planning and Redevelopment Department in January 2005, the Guidebook focuses on the influences of transportation, urban design, landscape, architecture, signage and graphic design on a community sense of place. It is created by local Broward architect Anthony Abbate, principal of Anthony Abbate Architects.
Abbate is also an associate professor of architecture and urban design at Florida Atlantic University and chair of the Broward Cultural Council. He was invited by the Queensland University of Technology to present The Guidebook at a Sub Tropical Cities Conference in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia last month. At the same time, the national radio broadcast segment Australia Talks Back featured Abbate, together with aboriginal architect Kevin O’Brien, and Georgia Butina-Watson, Professor of Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK. The three discussed issues concerning good design practices in relation to sustainable tropical architecture, that is adaptable to present climate conditions and future energy necessities.
Abbate said “good design should not only be beautiful, but it really has to combine cognitive design and technology to create something that can respond to the natural environment, the built environment and the human environment.” Demonstration projects have been implemented in Dania Beach, Wilton Manors, Coconut Creek, NW 27th Avenue, Pompano Beach and Miramar, where the Guidebook has been used to improve the quality of pedestrian and transit environment and address redevelopment challenges.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Abbate graduated from St. Thomas Acquinas High School and received degrees in Architecture from the Catholic University of America and Washington University in St. Louis. Abbate is a registered architect who has received 16 awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architecture, since he began his Fort Lauderdale practice in 1990. He served on the State of Florida Building Construction Advisory Committee, and is president of the Arango Design Foundation.
Visit http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/ and scroll to Wednesday, September 27, 2006 – Tropical Architecture, hear the full broadcast. |
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/
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